22 Marriage Devotional: Why You Should Pray for Your Marriage Every Day
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, we discuss the vital practice of daily prayer for your marriage. We explain how prayer aligns hearts with God, strengthens unity between spouses, and equips couples to recognize and respond to spiritual warfare.
Key Points
- Daily prayer as a non-negotiable foundation for a thriving marriage
- Prayer as alignment with God’s will, not a means to control outcomes
- The power of praying together to build unity and oneness
- Ecclesiastes 4:12: the threefold cord of spouse, self, and God
- Spiritual warfare: recognizing unseen battles and relying on God’s presence
- 2 Kings 6:17— opening eyes to see the spiritual reality around us
- Practical encouragement to use devotionals for deeper study, journaling, and spouse-focused prompts
Bible Verses Mentioned
- Ecclesiastes 4:12
- 2 Kings 6:15-17 (story of Elisha and the servant’s eyes opened)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Aaron. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Jennifer. |
| 0:02.3 | And we're the host of the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Our desire is to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God's will for your life together. |
| 0:08.5 | We want to invite you to subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. |
| 0:12.2 | We are so glad you're here, and we pray that our discussion truly blesses you and your marriage. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Welcome back to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | We are in week 22 of our 30-week marriage devotional series. |
| 0:34.1 | So Aaron and I have been going through our marriage devotionals that we wrote called |
| 0:37.7 | Husband After God and Wife After God. And this has just been a really in-depth series. It's been |
| 0:44.2 | so nice to cover the topics that we've already covered and we're looking forward to the ones to |
| 0:47.7 | come. We're kind of smushed right in a mini series about prayer, which has been really fun to get |
| 0:53.5 | through. |
| 0:58.6 | Today we're answering the question, why you should be praying for your marriage every day. |
| 1:00.3 | So we're really excited to get into that. |
| 1:04.8 | But before we do, I just wanted to, we just wanted to encourage you guys that if you haven't had a chance to pick up those devotionals and you're going through the series, it would be |
| 1:08.8 | so beneficial because it covers the topic more in depth. |
| 1:12.8 | It has different questions, discussion questions, things that you can write about in your journal |
| 1:17.3 | or in the book. It has little prayer prompts for you and challenges that you can do with your spouse. |
| 1:22.9 | And so it's just a good companion resource to this series that we've been going through. And it's what it's based off of. So we wanted to encourage you to get that. Do you want to tell them where they can find that? You can go shop. That's shop.marriageaftergod.com. That's shop. Dot marriage after God.com and pick up copies of our devotionals today. And before we get into the topic, I also want to invite you to share this show with |
| 1:46.2 | whoever you know. |
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